Conceptualisation Activity
When starting a new research project, it is important that you consider the
data management requirements and implications for all of the expected
research outputs that you will be creating.
Using either the five research outputs that you were asked to bring along to
the course as samples of the kind of data you work with; or by selecting five
items from the sample data set provided; or by choosing five items from the
internet, please complete the following form making specific reference to the
particular items as necessary.
Once you have finished the activity, please save it to your USB stick for future
reference.
Who is your funding body?
Do they have any specific requirement on
access to you research outputs over time?
Does your funding body require deposit to a
specific data centre for this research
outputs?
What is the type of research outputs are you
creating (data set, image, publication)?
Please list all. Will your data draw upon
existing data? If so, do require special
permissions to use it? Will this cost money?
If you are part of a research team, have you
specified who owns the rights to the data
collected by the team?
Who is the intended end user for these
research outputs?
What additional information do you think you
would need to provide along with these
research outputs for it to be useable – both
now and in the future?
Who will be involved in the creation of these
research
outputs
(collaborators,
IT
specialists, information specialists, other)?
Please specify for each item.
At what stage(s) will they need to be
involved and who will make contact to
ensure that this happens? Please specify for
each item.
Do you have access to specialist advice
regarding file formats, metadata, appropriate
standards, etc… within your projects staff or
institution? If so, can you describe where
this expertise is located within your
project/institution.
Will these research outputs be publicly
available following the project? Please
specify for each.
If not, what access restrictions do you
envisage for these research outputs? How
will you ensure that these restrictions are
made explicit for each item?
If you are not required to deposit your data
to a specified data centre, do you anticipate
depositing this research output to any other
data centre or repository for long-term
archiving?
If so, which data centre(s) or repository do
you anticipate making the deposit to?
Does your institution have facilities that can
be used to archive your data failing deposit
into a specified or other selected data centre
or repository?